colin@socs.uts.edu.au (Colin Panisset I) (03/26/91)
Ever wished you had a printer with your <brand-name> machine, but the only thing you had was an ancient Commodore MPS-802 printer? Try this - hook up the parallel port of your <brand-name> to the user port of the Commodore 64 (or Vic 20 (remember those?)), and write a lump of machine code on your 64 to grab data from the user port, convert it to PETSCII, and chuck it out to the serial port - easy, quick, and gives you a 64k print buffer to boot! The only problem occurs when you're trying this in a smallish room, with a large-footprint machine in one corner of a smallish desk, a vt131 in another corner, and your C= 64 and printer around the edges. It becomes important to learn to balance coffee cups on keyboards with toppling... Of course, on a C= 64, it doesn't matter if you spill the coffee on the keyboard - I once spilt milk down there, and the only thing that happened was that it started to stink after about a week. Ah, the days of yore... -- / colin@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au || Colin Panisset || Oi! You! / / All hail Discordia! <=> <- Meaningless symbol. "African or European?" / / "Come now Baldric, the ape-creatures of the Indus have mastered this..." / / Harry Coin, Ben Volpe, Lee Harvey Oswald, Frank Sullivan - You choose... /